rock nyc

In 1972, David Bowie took his space age glam rock into the stratosphere with assistance from Mick Ronson, who served as the guitarist for the wonderfully named Spiders from Mars

There will be tears. There will be tears and fainting. Z100 is helping ease us all in to the Mayan end of the world with a screech

The guy was doing his laundry when he was discovered by a relative, who was coming to the house to take care of Frances’ dog! Despite the fact that Franco insisted being a friend of Frances, the house sitter didn’t believe him and called the police.

HooHA its Taylor Swift week on television! I suppose you’re all in a post CMJ coma, so this works out great! What could be more mindless brain download that a week of the bubbly pop princess

The Origin Of Love – Mika – He looks like a teen Caligua on the album cover and there is something of an evil genius in waiting about the simple, lovely but kinda shallow dance pop album, by the half Lebanese, half Yank boy wonder. Though he’d promised that half of this album would be French, he musta changed his mind, instead he is speaking anglaise and playing straighahead modern pop. Bet it breaks big in the EU – Grade: B+

Last time I saw Franki Valli was at Lincoln Center just after Jersey Boys hit and was, frankly speaking, not awed. But I was awwwed, and I am catching a night of the Four Seasons seven night stand at Broadway Theater on Friday night. I’m guessing I don’t need to tell you why.

The new Harris-Welch is better than the old Harris-Welch, Lawson are a new boy band from the UK and they seem harmless enough, and otherwise, the UK charts are as always, heavy dance plus pop.

. It Gets Dark – Holy Ghost! – The last disco band in the world have lost nothing with this synth and drums old fashioned house party track, an atmospheric piece of eerieness that propels it self on Halloween-y slash and redrum – Grade: B+

I cant say I hate him but its the repetition of his songs on radio rotation that have pushed my tolerance out the window. I will say he has a great title on his album ‘Doo Wop and Hooligans’ but other than that I am not so sure that his fans are up this late.

Lazzara’s stage presence is great, simply because he could lay down for the whole show and be a phenomenal performer. He’s so charismatic and that alone could make up for any missed notes and any lyric mess ups

Everything is running like clockwork. It is so digital, on the mark, smart as help, sure no problem for sooooo many people. If the country was half as well organized…

. Labrador – Aimee Mann – This song not sticking with the rest of the world, let alone with me, is an indictment of a world where an album has 15 minutes to make an impression before the next one is here to take your attention away. This is a terrific song about fidelity but you really have to give it a little time for the melody to glue itself – Grade: B

Pitchfork meet the rapper in a New York gun range to do some freestyle and fire some rounds, and everyone agree that Keef holding a gun was highly insensitive to Chicago’s recent crime victims.

I may see them again during one of these Monday residencies at the Echo or the Satellite, or at another occasion, but for now ‘The Loose EP’ is available for download everywhere on iTunes, Amazon,… as well as on their website, where you can even get the song ‘Mind My Halo’ for free in exchange of your email address.

17 holiday classics that have been tumbled up and redone right in time for your Yule log.

Alternative, folk, electronica and even blue grass is featured in a very short time span.

you know how some weeks, all the new releases jumle into one big mess of sound, and there is no real difference between # 1 and # 7? This ain’t that, the new K’NAAN hijacked my spotify and held it ransom

Go – Killer Mike – On stage, he has a deeper voice and on this song, he has a spirit so playful much of the bad humor that inflicts rap disappears in a community. This song didn’t stand out on the album, but after hearing it live it is so much more than a clever tongue twister. It is loud, brash and lots of fun – Grade: A

I didn’t know she was that big nor did she apparently, as she repeated a few times she was freaking out because the crowd was crazy big. And the crowd was insane for her, especially the young girls screaming as if she was one of the Beatles,… or Skrillex

I couldn’t even review the video for this song, released on October 14th, because it was just as boring as the song. What is the point of a music video that is comprised of the artist waving his arms around at the camera while rapping

‘The pyramid seems to represent the power structures of the world. Turning it upside down is a gesture as to what we think of that

Kids Company” a British charity which provides support to vulnerable children will be the recipients of the proceeds from the Coldplay art show. Coldplay art? Actually album art-

Although Twisted Sister is disturbing to look at, I think a Manson, Zombie or even Gwar would have fit better. I love the idea of sending old rockers out to sea though.

M&L have been hard at work for years to pull this off, and so congratulate them, but I’ll take MGK, to be perfectly honest. Otherwise, the younger generation of rock nyc writers fave All Time Low beat out Ellie, and Mumford And Sons is no fluke while Muse might be.

The Maroon 5 album this comes from has been around since June, so with this their third smash, figure mission accomplished. Which is more than you can say for Adele WHO DID NOT MAKE THE TOP TEN SINGLES!!! Amazing, right? Is it over that fast? Surely not. PS: TS’s album in slices appears to be working fine. but except for “Never Ever” it is selling to the base. Conclusion: the base is huge.

Wild Boy Remix – MGK – Yes, bitch, he is Steve-O and yes, bitch, this is about as much fun as hip hop gets with a guest list of, well, many, and a nice back track that sounds like it escaped from a Hitchcock movie, MGK seems to be be having a blast with his homies – Grade: B+

It’s the same old wanna be cool hipster crap we are served from time to time when someone gets a bee in their bonnet that they’re more ‘fringe’ and ‘cutting edge’ than they really are. Simply said whomever booked this gig wanted to see Taylors full monty and got it

Four days four nights from Fort Lauderdale to Labadee Haiti. When did Haiti become a destination? It’s the Hell Boat. This got me thinking that maybe this is our way of getting back at those pesky pirates